http://vr-zone.com/articles/asetek-demands-amd-to-suspend/102530.html
 
http://wccftech.com/amd-gigabyte-asetek-cease-desist-fury-waterforce/
 
 
So any card using a cooler master pump ( Fury and 980) has to stop it sales....
 
This is all over a lawsuit they won a few months ago against CoolerMaster....

AMD just can't catch a break , when they start trying to compete....

GIGABYTE really behave weird... They install CM cooler in some GTX980Ti with AIO system.
Even on sticker on side write CM xxxxxx ...
I don't know why they do that after everything happen to CM. Now they will make maybe problem to customers.
OK AMD install in Fury X before trial. But GIGABYTE before few days show up with new 980Ti WaterForce...
My first reaction was... What, they plan to sell this only on Asian market? 
 

 
If notice that, and I'm nothing, how their Managers didn't notice same...
That's only one more prove how Asian companies love to use patent from west companies and than they invest more work in modification patents to look different and avoid possible penalties than to produce own unique product... 
 
 

It's just Karma. Cooler Master is the reason that Swiftech had to pull their H220 from the U.S. market after Cooler Master sued them.

I would think Asetek would be grateful that someone is buying their pumps in bulk quantity.

I always considered Asetek to be one of the more dependable manufacturers and delivered a reliable quality pump which is why many companies choose them over other brands. Now I see them for what they are, just a bunch of jerks looking to cash in for a big payday. Someone in their PR department hasn't thought this through. An Asetek pump makes another companies product more desirable to the general public and insures continued sales revenue for Asetek. From this point forward I will never buy a product from Asetek if they follow through with this. I'm sure they won't suffer financially by losing my business but if enough people decided to take a stand against this kind of lawsuit nonsense and expressed their disgust we might put an end to this kind of thing.

If Asetek increased production to fulfill a sales agreement with AMD and then AMD backed out leaving them holding the bag on a bunch of pumps then I can understand the lawsuit.

ManBearPig

Zuhl3156
I would think Asetek would be grateful that someone is buying their pumps in bulk quantity.

That is the whole reason for this lawsuit though, because AMD didn't use their pump.  When the Fury X was in prototype it was using an Asetek pump but at the last second AMD went with Cooler Master.  So this is Asetek's way of getting their pumps back into the AMD cards like they had with the 295X2 I bet.
 

seth89
I bet AMD will sell whats left and will look at another company to make their pumps for the US market.

But what are they going to sell in the US market until they put in a different pump?  Not being able to sell your best card in the US market is going to hurt your profit earnings hard.

Yeah you would think but then again... “There is no licensing agreement in place with Cooler Master, nor do we plan to offer any in the foreseeable future."
 
Real consumer friendly there Asetek.

Zuhl3156
I would think Asetek would be grateful that someone is buying their pumps in bulk quantity.

It's  not fair to someone make patent and sell to different companies and they explain nicely that's from Asetek and Asetek put them on their site as evidence of their good work and than some company will make own coolers on same principle and sell under own name even make cheaper and offer to other companies as cheaper version and steal deal between Asetek and AMD maybe. That's not fair...Why they need to follow CORSAIR, NZXT, Thermaltake, Zalman,... They will nicely build pump under own name and sell to other as CM product.
I don't know what happen with CM and Swiftech but companies who steal patent of others are sometimes so bad that they are capable to sue owners for their own patent only modified.
I remember work of CM before many years and last 2-3 years I see nicely sign of other companies in their products, fans, coolers, cases, even boxes and package for coolers, mostly CORSAIR, but they have no right to sue them because that's small things and similarities and only only Asetek have rights to ask compensation. And that's mostly fault of designers inside CM and people who need to make innovation, they rather use similarities of successful product from other companies in that moment. There are good chance that sometimes they do that completely unaware. 
ASUS have one big room for their designers with music, movies, books everything what can give inspiration to someone to create something what market like. I saw on Youtube that
 
 

Gigabyte loves to blame others for their own mistake of not paying attention.

Patent law is setup in such a way that everything is patented and if you make a physical product, no matter if you cleanroom design it, that you're still infringing on 100's of patents by just creating a physical product. Patent law is not friendly in it's current form to anyone who is not lawyered up and has about 3 million dollars sitting around to scare any competition out of the market through litigation. If you make a product and that product is popular, be prepared for litigation from patent holders no matter how diligent you are. You can't be effective in business without having a legal fund anymore.

Brad_Hawthorne
Patent law is setup in such a way that everything is patented and if you make a physical product, no matter if you cleanroom design it, that you're still infringing on 100's of patents by just creating a physical product. Patent law is not friendly in it's current form to anyone who is not lawyered up and has about 3 million dollars sitting around to scare any competition out of the market through litigation. If you make a product and that product is popular, be prepared for litigation from patent holders no matter how diligent you are. You can't be effective in business without having a legal fund anymore.

actually if you design it in a clean room without ever accessing any patents and can prove that it was 100% clean room you wont have to pay any royalties and it is likely to invalidate the patent 

Recent patent reform a few years ago streamlined the process so the first person who patents an idea even if the idea has prior examples owns the patent. It was meant to cut down on people filing prior example litigation. I don't see how it's a move in a positive direction because it empowers patent trolls.